|
FastMail Forum All posts relating to FastMail.FM should go here: suggestions, comments, requests for help, complaints, technical issues etc. |
|
Thread Tools |
25 Apr 2003, 12:25 PM | #1 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 2
|
Length of lines - lines getting shorter?..
when I look at the message I've just sent, I see that the amount of characters in the line is sometimes twice less than what was in the Compose screen.
The shortest line in my message was 24 characters (incl.spaces) Considering the fact I was trying to send my CV I am quite disappointed. Thanks for any help. |
25 Apr 2003, 02:08 PM | #2 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 2,274
|
Also it seems to be too smart. I indent the first line of the paragraph by 6 spaces. After sending the email, I discovered that every line in the paragraph has a 6 space indent, which is not what I want...
|
25 Apr 2003, 02:52 PM | #3 |
Ultimate Contributor
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Canada.
Posts: 10,355
|
You are right lux. If you do a hard carriage return, it kills the indent. I use this to indent text, when I am replying to an email and inserting text at various locations inside that message. If I want to indent a paragraph I just put in a hard carriage return at the end of the first line. But I am sure you know this and am mentioning it only because I have not been able to figure out if it is a feature or a bug. I guess it depends on what you want --david
|
25 Apr 2003, 03:04 PM | #4 | |
Master of the @
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Ultima Thule
Posts: 1,657
|
Re: Length of lines - lines getting shorter?..
Quote:
Welcome to the forum. |
|
25 Apr 2003, 03:17 PM | #5 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 2
|
+ You should have sent it as an attachment.
Many recruiters do not like attachments and ask the CV to be in the body of the message. So, as I understand, this is a permanent bug and there's no solution, right? Last edited by GS400E : 25 Apr 2003 at 03:19 PM. |
25 Apr 2003, 03:21 PM | #6 |
Master of the @
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Ultima Thule
Posts: 1,657
|
Maybe HTML composition will solve this problem...
|
25 Apr 2003, 04:38 PM | #7 |
Ultimate Contributor
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Canada.
Posts: 10,355
|
According to Jeremy the lines should wrap at 72 characters: http://www.emaildiscussions.com/...5610#post85610 --david
|
25 Apr 2003, 06:29 PM | #8 |
Intergalactic Postmaster
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 6,102
Representative of:
Fastmail.FM |
The wrap is at 72 chars.
There is a 'feature' though that if you start a long line with an indent, then it wraps, but includes the indent on all subsequent lines. Interestingly, I just had an email discussions with someone about this. I think I'm going to remove it, and just wrap to 72 chars with no funny business. That way you can use the 'Format' action if you want some intelligent wraping, or just use 'Send' if you want the most super boring wraping. Rob |
25 Apr 2003, 06:42 PM | #9 |
Master of the @
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Denmark
Posts: 1,302
|
Removing the indentation wrapping 'feature' would be OK in my opinion, but PLEASE keep the intelligent wrapping of quoted text in the default version! That's a lifesaver, if you ask me...
|
25 Apr 2003, 06:56 PM | #10 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: May 2002
Location: UK
Posts: 435
|
wow, didn't know that there was any "intelligence" at all to the (just hit send) formatting- I assumed it just cropped each line to 72 characters...
The only exception that I think I can see to this is when you email a super long URL and then it doesnt chop it - a good thing IMHO. Personally I find the "Format" do action incredibly useful in certain situations. Other times I am just after previewing what the email will look like to the recipient when i hit send. If the system is going to do the "chop to 72" is there room in the actions list for a "chop to 72 characters" action - just for fools like me who like to check before they send. It might help to solve some of this one word on the next line craziness that we often see. Maybe rename the current "Format" to "Intelligent Format" and have my suggestion as "Basic Format". Thoughts? |
Thread Tools | |
|
|